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Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
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Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Bill Baka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Edward Dolan wrote:
> >> Those who can't pay for it, should get it subsidized just like the school
> >> kids get their K-12 education. The Massachusetts plan seems sensible to
> >> me.
> >
> > The tax system needs to be overhauled so that people who load down the
> > school system with 3 or more kids should lose tax deductions starting with
> > the third kid. That way the people who cause school crowding will be the
> > ones paying for it. Single people or those with no children are hot for
> > other people's excess reproduction. It also seems to me that the
> > government should pay for, if not mandate, 2 years of college and then
> > take the top half and pay for a 4 year education. Take the top 25% of that
> > group and put them through to a masters, then take the top 10% of that
> > group and let them go to a doctorate. Reward for achievement. Simple
> > enough, so why aren't we doing it?
>
> I would reserve public (free, i.e., socialized) education (K-8 only) for the
> poor and the trash who do not value education in the first place. It would
> be a sort of baby sitting service and at least instruct in the 3 R's. After
> Grade 8 education would be reserved for those who can pay for it out of
> their own pockets. Frankly, we do not need to have everyone in society
> educated, only a select few.
>
> >> But overall, why should employers have to pay for their employees health
> >> care?
> >
> > Hey grate one,
> > Why should employers have to pay for their employees to come to work?
>
> Employer paid health care is unfair to all those workers and nonworkers who
> cannot get such plans. Try to get health insurance on your own and you
> quickly discover you can't afford it. Health care for everyone is a
> responsibility of the society at large, not employers.
Health care and education are the responsibility of the individual, who
should be allowed to COMPETE in a FREE MARKET to sell his/her labor,
products or services. He/she can take the compensation he/she has
gained in the FREE MARKET, and purchase said services that are offered
on a competitive FREE MARKET basis.
--
Tom Sherman - Here, not there.
> "Bill Baka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Edward Dolan wrote:
> >> Those who can't pay for it, should get it subsidized just like the school
> >> kids get their K-12 education. The Massachusetts plan seems sensible to
> >> me.
> >
> > The tax system needs to be overhauled so that people who load down the
> > school system with 3 or more kids should lose tax deductions starting with
> > the third kid. That way the people who cause school crowding will be the
> > ones paying for it. Single people or those with no children are hot for
> > other people's excess reproduction. It also seems to me that the
> > government should pay for, if not mandate, 2 years of college and then
> > take the top half and pay for a 4 year education. Take the top 25% of that
> > group and put them through to a masters, then take the top 10% of that
> > group and let them go to a doctorate. Reward for achievement. Simple
> > enough, so why aren't we doing it?
>
> I would reserve public (free, i.e., socialized) education (K-8 only) for the
> poor and the trash who do not value education in the first place. It would
> be a sort of baby sitting service and at least instruct in the 3 R's. After
> Grade 8 education would be reserved for those who can pay for it out of
> their own pockets. Frankly, we do not need to have everyone in society
> educated, only a select few.
>
> >> But overall, why should employers have to pay for their employees health
> >> care?
> >
> > Hey grate one,
> > Why should employers have to pay for their employees to come to work?
>
> Employer paid health care is unfair to all those workers and nonworkers who
> cannot get such plans. Try to get health insurance on your own and you
> quickly discover you can't afford it. Health care for everyone is a
> responsibility of the society at large, not employers.
Health care and education are the responsibility of the individual, who
should be allowed to COMPETE in a FREE MARKET to sell his/her labor,
products or services. He/she can take the compensation he/she has
gained in the FREE MARKET, and purchase said services that are offered
on a competitive FREE MARKET basis.
--
Tom Sherman - Here, not there.